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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a compartmented ceiling showing a series of circles with arabesque decoration, small rosettes and thistles.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/72
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a compartmented ceiling showing a series of circles with arabesque decoration, small rosettes and thistles.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Column / Center of the hall & middle Inter's Columination / Column / Plaster / Pilaster / Column / Center of Side Inter / Columnation / Pilaster / Pilaster / projection of Pilaster at extremity of the Hall / Middle of the Arch
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk382 x 539, vertical foldline
Hand
George Richardson (attributed to)
Watermark
Fleur de lys in two circles
Notes
The more obviously architectural drawings for James Adam's Parliament House scheme are probably by George Richardson (d.1813), as are the pencil annotations in English (see also Adam vol.7/113). Richardson went to Italy with James Adam and returned with him to work in the London office. The design here is a version of the ink drawing in Adam vol.7/12 and may be taken from an invention by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-1782) after the Salle des Sibille in the Vatican, Rome by Pinturicchio (1452-1513).
Level
Drawing
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